What I'm doing right now.
A plain-language snapshot — the kind of page you'd want before a first conversation. I keep it current; the date above is the last edit.
Building and operating Atrix
My role at Etera AI ended in September 2026. Since then I've been full-time on Atrix, the company I founded, operating the six products I shipped this year and using them as a working lab for how a small, AI-assisted engineering org should run. Day to day that means production on-call for a Rust telephony stack, an email platform and a ClickHouse analytics pipeline — plus customer conversations, billing and the unglamorous parts of running software.
- Atrix — AI workspace SaaS for small teams — CRM, projects, hiring, HR and billing in one place. Listed in the official MCP Registry; shipped CRM, HR, agreements with e-sign, calendar, pages and people modules in one year.
- VoDialer AI — AI outbound voice dialer built as a full VICIdial replacement for US Medicare call centres. Real reply gap of ~1.2 s on live PSTN calls; designed for 100+ concurrent conversations.
- Atrix Analytics — Product analytics platform (a PostHog alternative) written in Rust on ClickHouse. Ingests 42.7k events/s on a single CPU at 66 ms p99.
- Atrix Mail — Multi-tenant email hosting with a developer sending API and AI webmail. 41-tool MCP server on npm; per-mailbox billing live.
- RentGari — Car-rental marketplace for Pakistan that gives every agency a free branded storefront. Live with driver-first bookings; Play Store listing published.
- Switchboard — The shared messaging layer behind all of the above — WhatsApp and SMS with multi-provider failover.
Open to a CTO / Head of Engineering (AI) role
I'm actively talking to companies about a full-time CTO or Head of Engineering (AI) seat. The right fit is a product where AI is central — agents, voice, retrieval, developer platforms — and a team that wants a leader who still designs systems and writes code. Location-wise I'm in Dubai and happy to stay; I'm equally open to the wider Middle East, Europe, or a remote-first company. Atrix would continue as a portfolio of products I maintain, with no conflict with an employer's business.
Alongside that, I take a small number of fractional-CTO engagements (typically 8–15 hours a week) and advisory roles. If you're a founder who needs senior technical judgment without a full-time hire, that path is open.
What I'm writing about
Mostly the shift I lived through this year: what the CTO job becomes when one senior engineer with AI-assisted delivery can ship a product a month, how to give AI assistants scoped access to real systems through MCP, and what it actually takes to keep a voice agent under a ~1.2 s reply gap on a live phone call. I also write for hiring managers trying to evaluate AI engineering leaders — what to ask, what to ignore.
Mentoring, speaking, learning
Still mentoring founders through the MISK Foundation Fellowship, and taking a few speaking slots on agentic AI and the AI-era CTO — details on the speaking page. On the learning side I'm going deeper on Rust for real-time audio and on ClickHouse internals, because those two decisions paid off most in 2026.
This page follows the /now movement. Last updated November 2026.
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